On the other hand, if BSDs had been more popular, one of these splinters might have dominated the market as much as Linux does, due to the many positive feedback effects of being the most successful free OS.
As far as BSD being a mess after base I completely disagree. Using and understanding a package manager makes life pretty simple.
That said if the Linux community did that they would probably realize how silly containers are :)
You also need to do this for any pipeline for any OS.